“We are going to eat ice cream and we are going to eat shit. The trick is to use different spoons.” — Sam Lipsyte Ice cream Copy Share Image
“I wanted to have friends from all over the world in the way of a man who has no friends.” — Sam Lipsyte Friends Copy Share Image
“They weren’t like dolls, because dolls had no feelings. Kids had feelings, just not any remotely related to yours.” — Sam Lipsyte Dolls Copy Share Image
“I was glad I'd remembered to shucksify my vocabulary in the company of children.” — Sam Lipsyte Business Copy Share Image
You think you know yourself, the world. You believe you've got a bead on everybody else's bullshit, but what about your own? — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
“Judging by your face, the what-the-fuck nodes in your cerebral cortex must be a real light show.” — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
“You pay a whore to make you feel like a man, you fund a philharmonic to make yourself feel like a refined… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
“She liked reality shows the best, and then the shows that purported to be about reality.” — Sam Lipsyte Heart Copy Share Image
I knew I was in the vicinity of a serious lesson, if not about how to live life, then at least how… — Sam Lipsyte Lesson Copy Share Image
I'd become one of those mistakes you sometimes find in an office, a not unpleasant but mostly unproductive presence bobbing along on… — Sam Lipsyte Energy Copy Share Image
“It's hard to fuck your girlfriend when she's fucked up and you're not. It's harder than the skee-ball they used to have… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
“Van Wort was fat and his name was Van Wort. With that combination, why would you pack your kid off to camp?… — Sam Lipsyte Ladybugs Copy Share Image
“You think everyone will stay behind and do everything you did all over again, forever. You picture old geezers in jean jackets… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
Kamby Bolongo Mean River is an original and fearless fiction. It bears genetic traces of Beckett and Stein, but Robert Lopez's powerful… — Sam Lipsyte Bears Copy Share Image
“We are both from the same kind of towns. We both know the sound of swivel-head spray at midnight on a summer… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
When you work at home, fellow alums, discipline is the supreme virtue. Suicidal self-loathing lurks behind every coffee break. Activities must be… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
“You’re growing up. All you need to remember is that nothing changes. New technology, new markets, global interconnectivity, doesn’t matter. It’s still… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
I had a teacher once who said, "If you are going to write fiction, you should only read poetry." I have always… — Sam Lipsyte Care Copy Share Image
The bullshit never ends. That’s the main thing to remember. It never ends. — Sam Lipsyte Beginning Copy Share Image
There is nothing quite like the controlled burn of Eugene Marten’s prose. Waste is an exhilarating and unnerving piece of fiction. — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
Dept. of Speculation is gorgeous, funny, a profound and profoundly moving work of art. Jenny Offill is a master of form and… — Sam Lipsyte Art Copy Share Image
